The title may be ‘Perpetual Night’ but there’s absolutely nothing gloomy or unremitting about this delicious disc and its chiaroscuro play of shading and texture…Lawes and Locke may never quite... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2018More…

Duets for high tenor seem to have been something of a Blow speciality…and in Samuel Boden and Thomas Walker, director Jonathan Cohen has harnessed a quintessentially English sound whose lyricism... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2017, More…

Davies is the headline artist on the cover; but in fact he duets with James Hall on notably equal terms, the two voices subtly differing in timbre but compatible in articulation and expressivity.... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2019, (Performance ) / (Recording)More…

Choir of New College Oxford & St James’ Baroque (on period instruments)

An assured synthesis of elegant musicality, judicious ear for contrapuntal detail and informed scholarship...All the works are given splendid performances which not only remind us that there... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2016More…

Pramsohler, violinist and founder of Ensemble Diderot, has given careful thought to the construction and originality of his programmes…The London Album is crowned by sonatas by Purcell from his... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2019, More…

…it's often in the modest-looking pieces that she's at her most compelling. Robert Johnson's Full Fathom Five is 109 seconds of breathtaking stillness and beauty, Böddecker's Natus est Jesu... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2009More…

Release Date: 2nd Mar 2009

Catalogue No: BISCD1734/35

Label: BIS

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Awards:

4 CDs

$30.00

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The instrumental playing under Bertrand Cuiller is supple and vivid, but the real star of the show here is soprano Rachel Redmond: she sings an Akeyrode drinking song with bright swagger and... — The Guardian, 28th September 2017, More…